Your 2022 Investor’s Guide

It’s been a year of mixed messages. Even as the COVID pandemic dragged on through 2021, U.S. equity indexes kept climbing, Big Tech got bigger, and "meme stocks" and cryptocurrencies soared to nosebleed heights. Will the everything-goes-up market keep ticking—or will inflation bring the party to a halt? Our finance reporters and our panel of experts cut through the confusion in this special report.

Fortune's roundtable of experts are armoring up against rising prices, and finding great stocks in fintech, semiconductors, and the metaverse.

The stocks of America's most valuable companies have soared during the pandemic, but they could still give investors a rocky ride next year.

A top Goldman Sachs dealmaker says inflation isn't likely to stop the IPO and M&A frenzy in 2022

Kim Posnett, a veteran of the Bumble and Roblox IPOs, sees dealmaking continuing at this year’s record-breaking pace—despite the risk of inflation and banker burnout.

Tesla is either the future of cars or the ultimate meme stock. There's only one scenario where the stock's trillion-dollar valuation pans out, and it's a long shot.

These companies have inflation-proof pricing power, and they can keep customers coming back even if the economy weakens.

Rising prices and interest rates should boost so-called value stocks in industries like energy, banking, and consumer goods.

Stonks. Shiba Inu coins. Tesla. How the world’s richest man inspires meme-crazed investors—and what happens next.

The work of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist is helping investing pros understand the science behind "stonks."

To buy Tesla stock at current prices is to wager that Tesla will be the only successful maker of EVs by the end of the decade.

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